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Engineering strategy and architecture Define and own the technical vision and architecture strategy for Fourvenues Ensure the platform scales reliably across multiple countries Establish technical standards, decision-making frameworks, and documentation practices that distribute knowledge and reduce single-person dependencies Own the technical roadmap working alongside with the product roadmap — planning and protecting engineering capacity for both delivery and platform health Manage technical debt deliberately as a strategic decision, not an afterthought Engineering leadership and people development Lead, manage, coach, and develop the full engineering organisation Establish clear role definitions across engineering  Build a culture of genuine technical ownership — where engineers have real authority commensurate with their responsibility Run a meaningful 1:1 and feedback cadence — developing leaders, not just managing delivery Build career development frameworks for engineers at every level Create the conditions where senior technical talent can do their best work — protecting time for analysis, architecture, and craft without impacting organisational needs  Recruit and continuously raise the technical bar across the engineering organisation Engineering delivery and operational excellence Own engineering delivery — shipping reliably, predictably, and at the quality the market expects Establish planning rhythms and protect them — sprint planning, technical analysis before development begins, retrospectives, and delivery reviews Define and enforce clear escalation standards — what is a genuine hotfix, what is not, and how unplanned work is managed Drive DevOps, CI/CD, and platform reliability practices across the organisation Ensure platform security and infrastructure are managed as strategic priorities Distribute critical knowledge across the team — no system or access should depend on a single individual Champion the pragmatic adoption of AI tooling across engineering workflows — code generation, automated testing, observability, and incident response — embedding it as standard practice where it creates genuine leverage Product and engineering alignment Work as a genuine peer to the CPO — building a trust-based relationship where product and engineering make decisions together Ensure engineering has a voice when features and priorities are defined — not just when they arrive for estimation Establish clear decision rights at the product-engineering interface Embed technical analysis as a standard step before development begins Champion quality as the fastest path — not as a blocker to speed Executive leadership Work and collaborate as a member of Fourvenues’ leadership team Partner with the CEO on engineering investment, and technology strategy Surface risks and hard truths early — this organisation needs a CTO who tells it straight 10+ years in engineering leadership, with at least 3 years as CTO, VP Engineering, or equivalent in B2B SaaS Proven track record scaling engineering through international growth  Specific experience building engineering ownership structures — distributing technical authority, defining Tech Lead and Team Lead roles, reducing single-person dependencies — non-negotiable Experience transitioning engineering teams from reactive feature delivery to structured, technically-led development — non-negotiable Strong track record working as a peer to product leadership — aligning on priorities and decision rights Deep technical credibility earned through knowledge and judgement, not authority Familiarity with modern SaaS stacks, CI/CD, and observability tooling, with enough technical depth to guide architecture and challenge decisions. Practical experience embedding AI tool